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Re: What is "powerful"?
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Mon, 28 Jun 1999 09:15:28 GMT
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Tore Eriksson <tore.eriksson@mbox325.swipnet.se> writes:
> So I have a 56k modem. It takes 43 seconds to get online. It also fails
> occationally. My old USR 28.8 takes 34 seconds and makes a much more
> reliable connection.
Is that a so-called "winmodem"? I was shopping for a modem not too long
ago myself, but I almost exclusively found "winmodems", which are
useless to me. I ended up with a second hand USR Sportster 33.6.
What's wrong with winmodems? They're not modems. The computer's CPU
does almost all the work a real modem is supposed to do. It may work
for people running Windows who have a powerful computer and don't use it
for anything while "surfing". But I don't trust Windows enough to let
it access my modem, so I needed something better.
Fredrik
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| So I have a Pentium 450 with 12 Gb HD and 128 Mb RAM and Win98. It takes two minutes from power-on to have get a blank notepad window opened. Same thing takes less than a minute on my old Pentium 120 with Win95. It took less than 20 seconds from (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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